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Your kids and/or your grandkids say the darndest things, don’t they? Have you ever heard your child say something so profound, so inspirational, or so humorous that you felt a need to record it?
We all agree, don’t we? – that a child’s perspective on life is so delightful to hear that we want to hold on to those precious memories forever? Of course we do!
Sometimes what we find humorous is not what our kids or grandkids say, but rather what they do. My oldest daughter, for example, when she was about three or four, needed to use the bathroom after I told her repeatedly that if she needed to use it before my shower, she should use it now. “I don’t have to,” she responded.
About 3 minutes into my shower she decided she needed to use the bathroom. I told her that if she could figure out a way to come in, she could. A few minutes later, the door opened.
“How did you do that?” I asked her. She showed me two bobby pins. And that was the day I learned that my oldest daughter might become a locksmith – or she was setting herself up for a life of crime. Maybe, and more likely, she was just intrinsically mechanically inclined.
My son used to sleep with every new toy he got. Somebody bought him a rifle one year and he slept with it. I took a photo of him with his treasured new toy and when he became a United States Marine, the memory of that moment surfaced.
One of my daughters is so imaginative that when she was a little girl, as we sat in the back yard on a windy day, she said, “Look, Mommy, the trees are laughing.” I could just imagine them feeling tickled by the wind.
Another daughter, when she was very young, had a very unique vocabulary, so when my mom babysat once, I had to write a dictionary for her – yoke is milk, yo yoke is more milk, yepper is diaper, and sow is pacifier.
One of my granddaughters asked me, when she visited me in my “trailer court,” why she lived in a cracker house (apartment building) while I lived in a hot dog house (mobile home in a manufactured housing community).
Her youngest daughter, one of my great-granddaughters, would play Barbies with me. I asked her how she wanted to play with them, and she always said that her Barbie was sick or injured and that we had to take her to the hopsito (hospital obviously). She’s still very young, but I wonder if she will be a caregiver when she grows up.
One of my grandsons, when he was very young, told his mommy that he wanted to marry her. She explained that he couldn’t marry her, but that he could marry someone just like her. After thinking about his options, he responded, “I know! I’ll marry Grandma!”
OK, I’ll stop. I have 20 grandkids. I’m pretty sure you don’t want me to continue. This blog is getting fairly long already anyway. And I have written many of my stories in one of my other blogs, My Heart Blogs to You, which you can read if you're interested.
The point is that what our kids/grandkids say and do impacts us in ways we never imagined, and we want to hold on to those memories, because they’re so much fun to remember. Imagine being able to pick up one of these journals and read through it when you’re having a bad day! Imagine being able to look back from some point in the future to bring alive all those old memories!
Many of my memories are recorded in several journals, alongside thoughts, situations, and ideas. So I decided that it might be better to have a journal devoted entirely to just kids and grandkids! Before I put together this journal, when my kids told me funny, silly, imaginative things my grandkids said and did, I would say, “You should write that down.”
For that reason I have created the following two journals, which I would like to share with you. Honestly, who is funnier than your kids or grandkids? Don’t you want to memorialize their thoughts, words, and actions!
Of course you do! And here they are!
